Greetings

Greetings are those words and expression we use when we want to start or finish a conversation.
There exist two different type of Greetings: Formal Greetings and Informal Greetings.

Formal Greetings are those we use when we are talking to people to whom we should show more
respect than others, it means your teacher, someone you don't know or even when you are new
at a school and you want to introduce yourself to others.

Let's see some of the most common Formal Greetings:

• Good morning / afternoon / evening.
• Hello (name), how are you?
• Very well, thank you. And you? (formal)
• Good day Sir / Madam (very formal)
• Good morning / afternoon / evening.
• It was a pleasure seeing you.
• Goodbye.

Informal Greetings are those we use with close people, it means your family, your friends,
people at school. Informal Greetings are fresh and simple words that show bonds between
people.

Let's see some examples of Informal Greetings.

• Hi / Hello
• How are you?
• Fine / Great (informal)
• What's up? (very informal)
• How are you doing? (very informal)
• Goodbye / Bye.
• See you (later).
• Later (very informal)

Practice No 1
Read the following conversation. When you finish reading the conversation transcribe the
conversation into your notebook. Afther that, take a red color and highlight the Greetings
you find. Finally write the Greetings again and one by one say if they are Formal or Informal Greetings.
After School


Freddy: Mommy!!!Tara: Hi Freddy, how are you?Freddy: Fine, I did a lot of activities.Tara: That's great. Hi Dana, how was your day?Dana: I had a nice day.Tara: What do you want to do today? It's friday.Freddy and Dana: Let's go swimming!!!Tara: Ok, let's go!!!
Practice No 2

Now listen to the following conversation and try to extract the Greetings. Write the Greetings on
your notebook and name them as Formal or Informal. You can listen to the conversation as many
times as you want.



Question of the Day
What other Greetings do you know? You can ask your parents, friends, teachers...